YLT - Job - 15

15:1  And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --

15:2  Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?

15:3  To reason with a word not useful? And speeches--no profit in them?

15:4  Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

15:5  For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

15:6  Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

15:7  The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

15:8  Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?

15:9  What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou--and it is not with us?

15:10  Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us--Greater than thy father in days.

15:11  Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee,

15:12  What--doth thine heart take thee away? And what--are thine eyes high?

15:13  For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

15:14  What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

15:15  Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

15:16  Also--surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.

15:17  I shew thee--hearken to me--And this I have seen and declare:

15:18  Which the wise declare--And have not hid--from their fathers.

15:19  To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:

15:20  `All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

15:21  A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

15:22  He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.

15:23  He is wandering for bread--`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

15:24  Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

15:25  For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.

15:26  He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.

15:27  For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.

15:28  And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

15:29  He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.

15:30  He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!

15:31  Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

15:32  Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.

15:33  He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.

15:34  For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.

15:35  To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.